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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Baku or Cannes?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Baku for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Baku’s own page.

Choose Cannes for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Cannes’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Baku 40, Cannes 80: Cannes leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Cannes 55: Baku leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Cannes 38: Baku leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Baku and Cannes are level on 42.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Cannes 72: Cannes leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Cannes 86: Cannes leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Cannes 56: Cannes leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Cannes 68: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Cannes 60: Cannes leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Cannes 22: Baku leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Cannes 38: Baku leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Cannes 42: Cannes leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Cannes.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Baku
48match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Baku in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Cannes in July

29 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Cannes: 2004-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cannes (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuCannes
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageFrench
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112112
Elevation-28 m0 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuCannes
City population2,300,50074,350
People per km²1,0753,793
Museums within 10 km5016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months4 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.